After nearly two years of struggling to find a diagnosis for my pain at a different hospital, I was finally referred to Mr Jaiswal at Guys, who very quickly organised a range of scans, found a diagnosis, and arranged hip arthroscopy and labral repair. 3 months later and I already have a significant improvement in the movement in my hip and the pain has drastically reduced
The challenge of treating cartilage damage in the knee
I recently gave a lecture on this topic at the World Congress Orthopaedic, and it inspired me to write about this topic. Patients often ask me why cartilage damage is so difficult to treat. I hope this will give you a deeper understanding of complexity of cartilage...